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Originally Posted by calumniate
I've read all three books and even watched the 30 episode grind of the chinese tencent version.
I was, kind of underwhelmed with the new one. The tencent version was so long though and adhered to the original text so rigidly that this was somewhat refreshing. (Tencent was 30 episodes for book 1 only.. this is 8 episodes for 1.5 books).
Have no idea how a non-book reader would react to the new series. My gut feeling though is that many of the most intense scenes of discovery lack some punch or context to be as impactful as they could be
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I am feeling this and think it's related to the pacing. But I hope that the strategy is to do this and get to
But, I may be hoping for way too much. The pacing is so fast so far that it has been hard to really come around to the terror I was feeling having read book 1. They also haven't done a good enough job so far explaining what a Sophon is capable of and why it's such a big deal. My wife didn't get that at all.